A vote is a specific type of transaction (type 3). A wallet votes on a different wallet, which has registered itself eligible to become a Delegate. Wallets may vote for themselves.

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Users are often confused by the voting mechanism and the fee associated with a vote. A Delegate does not receive ARK from their voters, nor is the number of blocks they produce proportional to their voting weight.

Votes may be retrieved using their transaction ID. Note the asset field, which contains the votes object. The first character of each item in the array indicates if it was a vote: +, or unvote: -, followed by the public key of the Delegate.